Not entirely true. When one's PR firm comes to you in hysterics saying "this is beginning to have impact in the marketplace and we can't save you", companies generally start listening.
And if the PR firm can point to one thing--like being willing to sell the CoH IP and ALL of this will go away--companies generally at least take that into consideration.
Maybe I'm giving H&KS too much credit and NCSoft too little, but if we're doing as much damage to their PR as you're assuring me we are (and I'll take your word on that because I frankly don't know how hard we've hit them and you're the one with the inside ear not me) then it seems likely that a business devoted to PR would had noticed that already, considering that's their entire job.
It seems more likely to me that NCSoft is either being coached by them to stay silent by their PR firm (which, me being a pessimist, I could see happening, because gamers have a sort of reputation for being feckless and easily distracted or discouraged, so maybe they're hoping to just stay silent until we just get tired of this and go "Eh, well I'm not winning and I'm not going to punish myself by not playing GW2, so I'm going to buy that now", which is pretty much the attitude that allows EA, Ubisoft and Activision to exist at all) or (realistically more likely) has just disregarded H&KS' advice to do what they want.
NCSoft's leadership, to be honest has seemed to be a mixture of terribly incompetent and massively arrogant. They're holding most of the cards and they know it and it doesn't seem to matter to them that a few of them are facing the wrong way or from an UNO deck, or that they're folding or chewing on them. So it wouldn't surprise me if some western firm came up and just threw a fit about how they're circling the drain and they were like "Meh, I got this" as they continued to poke their eye out.
But you know, if you guys think it'll work, have at it, I guess. I just don't expect this is the best source of our attention.
